It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERMistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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I look for what needs to be done
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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
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The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
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We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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Doing more with less.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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